We're excited to announce the First Annual AIA Dallas LiA Sporting Clay Classic hosted by Acme Brick Company! Save the date for Friday, October 14 at ACME Brick's shooting range in Brock, Texas. All proceeds will go towards the endowment of the Latinos in Architecture Scholarship benefiting recent area high school graduates.
This book donation/library development program would provide local educational institutions with books that are essential for the teaching and research of Architecture but too costly for most schools or scholars to afford.
You are encouraged to write a note of insight or encouragement inside the cover of the book to personalize and humanize the gift to the students. You can contribute something from your personal collection or buy a book to donate.Donations can include: Architecture, interior design, photography, engineering, art and construction books.
Your book donation will help:
- Motivate a young student to stay in school and pursue a college degree education; Raise awareness of Architecture as a career path as well as its profile to make the profession more diverse and attractive; Inspire the Architect's of tomorrow: With this program if we touch one student who will pursue a career in architecture, go on to licensure, and become an AIA member, that will make it a success.
BOOKSHELF CHAMPIONS: If you are interested in being one, please let us know.
Collections are NOW - JULY.
There will also be a collection point at the Dallas Center for Architecture (DCFA)- 1909 Woodall Rodgers Fwy., Suite 100 Dallas, TX 75201
Thank you all that attended our Happy Hour Numero Dos! In this meeting we introduced our new scholarship program, launched our annual book drive "From an Architect's Bookshelf", networked, and enjoy some frozen margaritas!! Thanks you Corgan and Material Surfaces for being our sponsors.
Ábalos + Sentkiewicz is an international architecture studio
combining widely honored academic, professional and research activity. The
partners have taught at ETSAM, Architectural Association, Columbia, Cornell,
Princeton, and the Harvard GSD where Ábalos is currently Chair of the
Department of Architecture.
The studio's projects are internationally recognized with over
20 individual and collective exhibitions including AA-London, Pavillon de
l'arsenale-Paris, MoMA and the Venice Biennale. A + S has received over 80
architecture and design awards. Critic William Curtis chose their Pavilion in
Madrid's Retiro Park as one of the three best works built in Spain during the
last 30 years. Ábalos + Sentkiewicz' professional work has been collected in 10
monographs and their academic research has been compiled in 12 books.
Iñaki Ábalos received his Master´s and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture from the
School of Architecture of Madrid. He was a Co-Founder and Director of the
esteemed Spanish architecture firm Ábalos & Herreros for over two
decades before establishing his current studio. He also is the Founder and
Director of Laboratorio de Técnicas y Paisajes Contemporáneos in Spain.
Ábalos was given a RIBA International Fellowship in 2009. He is the author
of Le Corbusier: Skyscrapers; Tower and
Office and Natural Artificial among many others.
Ábalos also curated the Spanish Pavilion at the 2014 Venice
Biennale.
Renata Sentkiewicz has a Master's of Science from the Cracow Polytechnic
School of Architecture. A Founder and Director of Abalos+Sentkiewicz, she is
also a member of the Zero Energy Alliance and a Design Critic at the Harvard
GSD. Her professional work has been widely published in different national and
international publications. An exhibition about her work, Dualisms:
Abalos + Sentkiewicz was held at the GSD. Sentkiewicz has given
workshops and seminars in architecture and landscape in different international
cities including the Berlage Institute, the IUAV in Venice, the Festarch
Cerdegna, and the Universal Nacional de Colombia.
Their work has been widely published in journals and monographs,
such as Abalos & Herreros; Abalos & Herreros, Grand
Tour; Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos -Thermodynamic Beauty;
Abalos + Sentkiewicz: Form, Matter, and Energy and Essays on
Thermodynamics, Architecture and Beauty.
What a turn out last night for the AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture Committee, a little over 100 attended! Thanks to those of you who joined us for our New Year Kick-Off Happy Hour and presentation. We enjoyed talking and hearing from many of you! A big thanks to The Beck Group andPatcraft for sponsoring the event.
Our committee encourage you as a leader to keep yourself engaged, continuously learn from one another, and create opportunities for educational, social and architectural ideas to activate your workplaces and communities.
ZAIDA BASORA FAIA, LEED AP BD+C
AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture Network, is honored to
include Zaida Basora, FAIA as our keynote speaker for the 2015 Enlaces exhibition
and celebration. Zaida’s presence in Dallas has been influential and continues
to transform our buildings, our perception of the city, and the future for a
more sustainable environment.
Zaida is an icon of progressive leadership and a visionary
in the city of Dallas. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University
of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the
University of Puerto Rico. As a champion for sustainability in architecture,
she has scored multiple accolades to exemplify and prove her passion for a more
conscious sustainable environment. In 2003, Zaida began implementation of the
Dallas green building program which resulted in over 40 new sustainable
facilities. Currently, Zaida oversees design, construction, and energy
management in over 840 city-owned facilities.
Uniquely positioned as a leader in our city, Zaida possesses
unmatched insight into policy and a comprehensive understanding of
sustainability initiatives. Over the past 20 years she has held several
positions with the City of Dallas including Purchasing Agent and Chief Building
Official.
She was appointed to lead the task forces for development of
the Dallas green building code in 2008, and not only updated, but adopted the green
construction code in 2012. Her work championing green building codes in Dallas
has been recognized with a 2008 BOAT award of excellence, 2009 CLIDE award in
public policy, and in 2014 two CoreNet Global Sustainability Leadership Awards at
the local and national level.
Zaida is a nationally recognized green building expert whose
professional work has made Dallas a leader in regional and national green
building standards and sustainability. On January 2012, Zaida was elected to
the AIA College of Fellows in recognition of her significant contributions to
architecture and society. She was also recognized by Ford Motor Company as a
Mujer Legendaria in March of 2014 and received the President’s Pillar Award
from the Regional Hispanic Contractor’s Association in 2014. Her vision for a
more sustainable environment and her desire to gather communities around common
goals will continue to be her mission as she transitions to become the new
president of AIA Dallas in 2016.
We hope to see you all there.
There still time to register to do so follow the link below:
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All LiA memebers are invited to attend our Planning Meeting, next Thursday May 21st.
We will work on:
- The Book Drive
- June Happy Hour
- Enlaces!!!
Dear Latinos in Architecture,LiA Dallas will host the next planning meeting at ...
Date: Wednesday March 18th.
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Address: 1717 Pacific Ave, Dallas 75201
Events to plan will be From the Architect's Bookshelf book
drive and Enlaces exhibition.
facebook event
Date: Wednesday March 18th.
Time: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Address: 1717 Pacific Ave, Dallas 75201
facebook event
Save the Date!
We are very excited to invite you to our annual ENLACES Exhibition Opening reception. This is a great time to celebrate Latino Architects and Designers in the area.
DCFA | September 25, 2014 | 6-8PM
I hope you will be able to come have a good time with old friends and celebrate a few individuals that have done noteworthy work around Dallas.
Best,
Gloria Espino | David Munoz 
Latinos
in Architecture deliver architectural inspiration to high school youth…
Latinos in architecture had the opportunity to deliver
donated books to one of our local high schools. Thanks to everyone that donated
books.
Last week, I had the opportunity to be a part of an event
that marks what Latinos in Architecture stands for. This event, From The Architects Bookshelf, promotes
higher education in the field of construction, design and art. It is in LiA’s
core values to promote the need for a higher education, and the importance of
sharing with our community. During each of the volunteers’ introduction we were
able to share where we were from, where we obtained our education, our career
path and a recommendation that we thought would help them. Al Hernandez shared his
passion for architecture, and also explained the roles that architects have as
managers of the different disciplines like engineers, contractors, owners and
users.
The school is always carefully selected keeping in mind
that they have an architecture/design program in their curriculum, and then the
instructor gathers a group of student. We delivered the books to Pinkston High
School in west Dallas. The majority of the students that attend this high school
are minorities.
Below is the group of volunteers (from left to right):
Karina Ramirez
Al Hernandez
Gloria Espino
David Munoz
Salud Sierra
Daniel Navarro Rangel
It was really rewarding to see the faces of exiting
student opening books and understanding what architects do as designers. Thanks
to our co-chair David Munoz and Gloria Espino for organizing the event.
MEETING
LiA Committee Meeting
DCFA
March 19, 2014
Our 2 committee meeting is coming up next Wednesday, everyone is invited to join us. We would like to hear from you, and how you can make a positive impact with your participation on our upcoming events.
Check your emails next week, a formal agenda will be distributed.
I hope to see a lot of you in there.
David
LiA Committee Meeting
DCFA
March 19, 2014
Our 2 committee meeting is coming up next Wednesday, everyone is invited to join us. We would like to hear from you, and how you can make a positive impact with your participation on our upcoming events.
Check your emails next week, a formal agenda will be distributed.
I hope to see a lot of you in there.
David
Social Responsibility Opportunity
Independence
Elementary School
Annual Career Day
May 9, 2014
Need: Hispanic
professionals to talk to the kids to inspire them to
purse a professional degree.
School fact: School's population is about 70%
Hispanic.
Program: Morning session 8:15-10:30 a.m.Afternoon session: 12:45-2:30 p.m.
15-30 minutes conversation with the kids | 4 - 6
classrooms.
Contact: Susan Budilovsky-Robson |214.727.5168
Website: http://independence.lisd.net/
After the event: If
you want to make public you participation and
contribution on the LiA social media,
send us a
synopsis and pictures.
THANK YOU
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet one of PRODUCTORA’s principal hosted by Dallas Architecture Forum.
Carlos Bedoya will be at The Magnolia Theatre, West Village on February 20, 2014 at 7:00 pm. This is a great opportunity for all of our members to see how diversity has helped the success of this firm.
The Dallas Architecture Forum is pleased to offer a special admission rate for LIA members who are not Forum members-- $10 instead of the normal rate of $20. All you need to do is identify yourself as a LIA member during check-in the evening of the lecture (reception/check in from 6:15 pm to start of lecture) and then pay by cash or check to “Dallas Architecture Forum.”
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Carlos Bedoya Ikeda, a native of Mexico City, studied Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and received his Masters in Architecture from the ETSAB in Barcelona. After practicing in the office of TEN Arquitectos and serving as a project manager at LCM, he and three other partners from Mexico, Argentina and Belgium founded the architectural firm PRODUCTORA in Mexico City. The name PRODUCTORA emerges from the conviction that the design process advances through a continuous production of material to be evaluated. The work of PRODUCTORA is characterized for a precise attention to geometry, a profound aesthetic ambition and a concern with timelessness in its materialization and programmatic solutions. The studio has produced a variety of residential, public, and corporate projects in Mexico and abroad, including Asia and South America. The firm’s work has been published and awarded nationally and internationally. The firm was recently honored as an international Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York City. In 2011 Productora founded LIGA, space for architecture and exhibitions in Mexico City to promote the exchange of ideas and investigations in contemporary Latin-American architecture.
PRODUCTORA currently is working on a variety of projects, both in Mexico and in other countries, ranging from single family dwellings to office or public buildings. The office has taught and lectured at national and international events. They presented their work at the 2nd architectural Biennale in Beijing and at the Venice Biennale in 2008. PRODUCTORA was one of the architecture studios chosen to build a villa for the Ordos100 Project in Inner Mongolia. They won the International Competition for the CAF Headquarters in Caracas (Venezuela) in collaboration with Lucio Muniain, and have been exhibited at the National Museum of Art in Beijing and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Bedoya serves on the editorial board of Domus Mexico and has developed an important teaching career, and he currently is a professor at TEC in Monterrey and Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
In its fourth year celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month, the AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture Committee presents: ENLACES, an exhibition celebrating Latinos in the design-related professions.
Included in the exhibition are: Margine Biswas, AIA (Archiphy); Silvino Castillo (Perkins+Will); Anita Delgado, Associate AIA (Corgan Associates); Al Hernandez, AIA (SHW Group); Julian Lizarazu, Associate AIA; Adriana Mesquita Pacheco (RTKL Associates); Adriana Meyer, AIA (APM Architecture); David Muñoz (Perkins+Will); Javier Rosero (SHW Group); Dulce Torres, International Associate AIA (HKS Inc.); Hector Zumalacarregui (RTKL Associates);
Registration Costs:
Payment in Advance
$10 Members
$15 Non Members
Payment at the Door
$15 Members
$20 Non Members
Thanks to our sponsors!!!:
FMG- Furniture Marketing Group
Good Fulton & Farrell
HKS Inc.
Milby Attorneys & Counselors
Northwestern Mutual
Perkins+Will
RTKL Associates
Rene Barbier
TO REGISTER GO TO:
http://www.aiadallas.org/cde.cfm?event=416158
The West Dallas Community Center is an 80 year old
non-profit organization who is looking to re-invent itself, expand the programs
offer and become a greater resource to the community. The center would like to maximize the use of
their Bataan site to better serve the community. A volunteer effort is taking place as part of
AIA Dallas Latinos in Architecture community outreach projects that involves
developing the center’s visioning, rebranding and updating the centers web
site, setting master plan goals, and developing a site master plan for WDCC
development.
The mission of the WDCC is Helping Youth Excel! They help youth of West Dallas develop
dignity, self-respect and meet life’s encounters with a positive attitude and
manner. They also communicate to the youth that they can make an impact in
their community and with their lives. They train youth to practice acceptable
and new social skills, increased self-worth that will enable them to become
productive citizens of society.
The West Dallas Community Center is located off of Bataan
Street two blocks south of the Margaret Hunt Bridge with a spectacular view of
downtown Dallas. Its location at the
heart of the community makes it an ideal location for the services that it
offers and its goal of reaching out to serve other members of its community.
A site study and schematic site plan has been created by LiA
to assist WDCC as they work with the City of Dallas in the rezoning of the
property to continue to allow for the services currently rendered and as a
guide map to show the future services that can be offered.
The WDCC logo and branding continues to develop. The
goal for this holistic branding effort is to incorporate the web site
development with the new logo design.
The logo is to visually unite the corporation’s goal of reaching to a
greater community demographic, incorporate the Institution's color, and show a
regional connection.
For opportunities and involvement with this program and/or
other LiA programs or to find out more information about Latinos in
Architecture please send an email to liacommittee@gmail.com.
